Mobile Photography

Photography is a great passion and in present time it’s a trend to frame everything which is special, like Christmas evening to Happy New Year celebration, your love one’s birthday to taking a selfie with an old friend everything everyone wants to frame. But every single moment carrying a camera and its setup is not possible. Why not utilize your smartphone feature?

We are here to help you by providing some easy but useful mobile photography tips to take splendid mobile photography.

 

What is Mobile Photography?

Mobile photography is an art of taking photographs using smartphones.

From the time people incline towards more social media image sharing, the camera becomes the key selling point of smartphones. Companies are manufacturing mobiles with triple camera, Bokeh mode, AI selfie mode, Telephoto lenses, etc.

Types of Mobile photography:

There are lots of photography type that can be captured by mobile. Some of them are

• Adventure photography or outdoor photography
• Black and white photography
• Candid photography
• City scape photography
• Commercial photography
• Event photography and many more

 

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CAMERA SETTINGS:

Any mobile’s camera from 2017 is good enough to capture. But what makes the difference? Someone is getting amazing photographs when another one just can’t.

Well, it depends on two basic things, Framing and post-processing.

Framing

Framing is necessary for any photo, it is the way you want people to see your photo but it is very distinctive and it takes a lot of time to understand framing and improve. Here are some tricks to follow to make images better.

• Symmetry: Symmetry brings more beauty. To find symmetry just turn on the gridlines on your camera. Follow the rule of thirds, Place the subject on one of the intersections between horizontal and vertical lines to attract the eye.
• Taking shots from a different angle: Taking the same photograph from a different angle makes every image unique from others.
• Background and Foreground: Most of the camera phone has the feature of blurring the background and focusing on the foreground. It makes the object placed in the foreground more beautiful.

Always shoot in HDR mode: HDR mode (High dynamic range) captures three shots one under exposed and one normal and another overexposed and combine them together to form the best photo.

Now coming to the second part, post-processing.

 

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Post-processing

Some people think it’s manipulating or cheating but it’s not like that, as most of the time, cameras are not able to take the exact image of what we see. Hence post-processing is important in mobile photography.

There are a ton of apps available. One of the best is Goggle’s snap seed as it is simple to use but loaded with powerful features. Let’s take a look at how it helps.

• Brightness: Adjusting brightness can make the image more bright or dark when it is under or overexposed.
• Contrast: Increasing the contrast increase the separation between bright and dark parts.
• Saturation: Increasing the saturation increase the parting between colours.
• Highlights: Highlights brightened the specific part of the picture.
• Warmth: It generally controls the temperature of the image.

Lighting

No matter which mobile camera you are using lighting is the most crucial part of mobile photography. Ensure natural lights are coming during photography, be it any lamp, window or direct sunlight.

Ideas and Inspire

To have some ideas about mobile photography, just follow the gallery of Bisakha Datta.

Best photographers in this field:

• Linda Stokes: Uses Samsung Galaxy III for most of the shots. She takes waterscapes, sunrise, and sunset, flowers Website link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/listokes. Articles: Floating Hibiscus flower, The last lotus.
• Francois-Rene Hamelin: Uses HTC Desire HD to take shots. “I always try to have pictures that tell stories or at least that give a feeling,” Hamelin says. Website link: https://www.instagram.com/frankhamelin/
• Katie Cowden: Uses T-Mobile my Touch Slide1to capture her shots. Website link: https://www.modelmayhem.com/636551

 

Making Money with Mobile Photography

 

Stock photography

Shutterstock

Shutterstock is a leading photographic trading market place over than 15 years, a very popular online site to buy photos. They have a collection of 200 million images, videos, and music tracks with royalty-free purchasing that makes a huge number of customers.

Adobe Stock

Adobe Stock (formerly Fotolia) is a market place to stock photos by most popular photo editing software companies like lightroom and Photoshop. It is considered to be the very first site to sell photographs online. The share of royalty is also higher than any other online store.

Dreamstime

Dreamstime offers reliable and genuine HQ digital photos with affordable price. It’s a royalty-free stock photography site from 2000. It is one of the best photography leaders in the world.

Creative Market

Creative Market is a handcrafted digital market place to sell simple and accessible designs for everyone. They offer photos, graphics, themes, 3d models, fonts, add on, website themes, templates.

BigStockPhoto

BigStockPhoto is an international royalty free micro stock photographic website. It is the most reliable seller of online photo market. They typically sell images via a credit-based system. They have a vast collection of photos, vectors, and illustrations.

Make money through Facebook

Create a discussion group

Make a photographic group or page on Facebook and carry on discussing your preferred genre of photography. Keep uploading your best images. Create an engaged community base.

Create competition

Create a photography competition and gather more followers. Sell photographs to enthusiast buyers.

Make money through Instagram/Pinterest

Grow your followers

Making money in Instagram/Pinterest through photography is based on the growth of engaged followers. Make a proper profile and set a good image that looks professional. Use a simple effective logo. Put on a catchy description. Stick to a particular genre of photography that makes an identity of you. Post most stunning and relish pictures consistently, don’t overdo posting that may annoy your followers. Use hashtag and geotags.

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Sell Pictures

There are many renowned market places and hosting sites that offer photographers to gain good money through licensing and making a partnership with big brands.

• Offer limited-time free services to grow your follower
• Offer premium services
• Quiz
• Interaction with followers

 

Teach Photography

Teaching photography is a great thing to make money. You can have basic digital online classes via your website. Make a detailed video course and charge a better amount to buyers. Conduct with your followers via social media and also you can have an affiliate marketing plan for your students. Privet lessons are also good. Bisakha Datta is indeed a good teacher to help you solve all your photography queries.

Sell Art Photography

The initial stage is to get hold of a reliable printing source and gradually create an offline marketplace platform or create an online blog of your own. Display your art prints, set the price, promote your initiative and start earning gradually.  Get some unique ideas here.

 

Affiliate marketing

In Instagram or any other marketplace, influencer photographers are more focused on making sales. Adding a tracked link in your bio section on Instagram or in the caption of each post can make an affiliate marketing strategy.

Create your own stock website

Creating a stock photography site is a golden opportunity for photographers with a new way to make money online. It is very useful for marketers, entrepreneurs, designers, etc. Stumbling with the procedure of making a stock website? Visit an expert at ambertimes.com to get authentic advice.

Create your own gallery to showcase

Flickr.com

Flickr.com is an online free photo hosting and sharing site that offers you to make unlimited sharing of your photos and exploring other images without paying a single coin. It has a very active and engaged community. The website offers your a gallery to showcase with rich and advanced features.
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500px.com

500 p-x is a Toronto; Canada based photo hosting and sharing service site. It is owned by China. It’s an international online platform for photographers to get global exposures. It also offers to gain money via licensing and brand partnerships.
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Sell T-Shirt with your unique photography

Selling T-Shirts with unique photography is a pretty cool idea of money-making. Selling a designed T-Shirt online is a big gateway into the larger e-commerce market or in the world of fashion.

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Write a book and sell

Write a book on photography and sell it. If anyone gets difficulties related with publishing they can self publish a book in e-book format that also yields money. Get a mentor and coach in here.

Create a blog to share your photography experience

How to create your blog? – Probably blogging is the best part of digital marketing. To make money with photography one must write blogs in their sites.
How to create a site using WordPress? – Creating a site requires knowledge of web development and designing using WordPress. There is a better way to visit an expert at bisakhadatta.com. She will provide a great deal in creating your website as per your request.

Create YouTube channel

For creating an effective YouTube channel that will gain vast popularity in the least time concerning photography and designs, contact the website of Bisakha Datta at bisakhadatta.com.

Workshop on photography

Photography workshop is a place where anyone who has a keen willingness to learn photography can gather much knowledge and experience in a few hours. In a workshop, arranged by many famous photographers, you get something which is priceless. For making career photography one must go through some photography workshops. There are many workshops available in the market.

One can visit Bisakha Datta’s website at bisakhadatta.com and participate in the workshops for beginner and aspiring photographers conducted at regular intervals.

Overall, we can say photography is an excellent profession to continue. We can find the subjects easily and also the conditions are flexible. So, give a try, maybe this is the thing you need to start your photographic journey.